Pinyin "yu3"

In MandarinBanana's mnemonic system, the Pinyin syllable "yu3" is split up into two parts: "yu" and "Ø3". You can visit the Pinyin index to see how other Pinyin syllables are split up into initials and finals.

Mnemonics for Pinyin initial "yu"

Yu is for Yu the Great who tamed the floods.

Mnemonics for Pinyin final "Ø3"

In the space station's living room.

Characters pronounced yu3

dialect / language / speech

= + : Yu the Great is seeing some language advertisement on an advertising column in the space station. She decides to paint a big mandarin colored pentagram over the language ad.
and / to give / together with

= : The space station has to be evacuated! Together with the unicorn, Yu the Great tries to wake up the sleepy black horse, but it sleeps really tight.

= : This one looks like 马 with eyes closed, so let's use a sleepy horse as symbol. To distinguish it let's say it's a sleepy black horse.
rain / CL:陣|阵[zhen4],場|场[chang2]

= + + : It is raining inside of the space station, and because of zero gravity, it is raining in every direction. Yu the Great can't just hide under a ladder covered with petal leaves, she also has to tug herself in a few maps.
to give

= + + + : Mnemonic symbol: Confucius's disciple 宰予 who used to sleep during Confucuis's lectures.

Yu the Great is giving a lecture in the space station, but her only listener Zai Yu fell asleep right at the start. First, Yu the Great tried to poke him with her finger. No reaction. Then she hit him with a crowbar. Again, no reaction. Finally, Yu the Great got so angry that she was close to hitting Zai Yu with two sickles.
(literary) to give
Yu the Great (c. 21st century BC), mythical leader who tamed the floods / surname Yu

= + : Yu the Great (禹) studies a map (冂) in the space station's living room (Ø3) to build his dams, but he's confused about all the new rivers which seem to have formed recently. In reality Yu the Great (yu) played a prank on him: she put a slug (䖝) on the map which just left trails of slime.

= 丿 + + : Yu the Great (禹) wants to impress Yu the Great (yu) in the space station's living room (Ø3) and studies a map (冂) of the world's rivers. After he decided where he want to build his dikes, he sends out an armada of mosquitoes (虫) carrying bananas (丿). The mosquitoes will drop the bananas at the determined positions and build dams with them so as to control the waters. Yu the Great is mildly impressed by these efforts.
feather / 5th note in pentatonic scale

= : Yu the Great is studying the structure of a feather inside the space station.
room / universe

= + : Yu the Great (yu) just earned her PhD in the space station (Ø3) and is proudly putting on her graduation cap (宀). She was measuring cosmic (宇) rays by investigating the traces they left in a honey jar (于) and is demonstrating her experiment for the camera.
islet

屿 = + : The sleepy black horse (与) wants to nap, but he is frequently bothered by Yu the Great (yu) who wants to ride him through the space station (Ø3). Finally he retreats onto a small islet (屿) and keeps a fork (山) at his side to keep Yu the Great at bay.
surname Yu / name of a mountain
big
(chalcedony)
horse stable / frontier
prison / to imprison
percussion instrument shaped as a hollow wooden tiger, with serrated strip across the back, across which one runs a drumstick
bad / useless / weak